This document was prepared for a briefing to Dr. Angell on analyzing the equity implications of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) in California.

In Lieu of data on the actual locations and times of Californians affected by PSPS - which are expecting from PG&E soon, we examined the overlay of (CalFIRE’s Fire Hazard Severity Zones (FHSZ)](https://osfm.fire.ca.gov/divisions/wildfire-prevention-planning-engineering/wildland-hazards-building-codes/fire-hazard-severity-zones-maps/) with two (2) statewide datasets describing health equity:

The CalFIRE data is a decent proxy for areas potentially affected by PSPS. The state identifies Moderate, High, and Very High risk areas of both state and local responsibility (can be explored in map below). There are other datasets of wildfire risk that we could explore that may include areas of federal responsibility.

By combining the Fire Hazard zones with the health equity data, we can begin to see how populations living in these different areas compare. For example, using the HPI, we can compare the average Index score (and components) for tracts in the different Fire Risk Severty Zones. The actual scores are not very meningful, but we can see that we see increase HPI Scores for tracts in the highest FRSZs.

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